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Old Society, New Belief - Religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries (Hardcover)
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Old Society, New Belief - Religious transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries (Hardcover)
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In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems
entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks
and values: missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus
of Nazareth in Rome and the Buddha in China. Rome and China were
not only ancient cultures, but also cultures whose elites felt no
need to receive the new beliefs. Yet a few centuries later the two
new faiths had become so well-established that their names were
virtually synonymous with the polities they had entered as
strangers. Although there have been numerous studies addressing
this phenomenon in each field, the difficulty of mastering the
languages and literature of these two great cultures has prevented
any sustained effort to compare the two influential religious
traditions at their initial period of development. This book brings
together specialists in the history and religion of Rome and China
with a twofold aim. First, it aims to show in some detail the
similarities and differences each religion encountered in the
process of merging into a new cultural environment. Second, by
juxtaposing the familiar with the foreign, it also aims to capture
aspects of this process that could otherwise be overlooked. This
approach is based on the general proposition that, when a new
religious belief begins to make contact with a society that has
already had long honored beliefs, certain areas of contention will
inevitably ensue and changes on both sides have to take place.
There will be a dynamic interchange between the old and the new,
not only on the narrowly defined level of "belief," but also on the
entire cultural body that nurtures these beliefs. Thus, this book
aims to reassess the nature of each of these religions, not as
unique cultural phenomena but as part of the whole cultural
dynamics of human societies.
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